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Boulder Colorado Recycling Program
Boulder just begun single-stream recycling and curbside composting for residential trash customers. I went back and forth on writing a blog about this new program. I finally decided to write on this topic after hearing so many people in the community talking about it. I can’t count how many times I have been standing in line at the coffee shop or the grocery store to hear conversations about how great it is to have incorporated this progressive recycling system. The Boulder community actually cares about this a great deal and this news has made the headlines. The new service has already started in some neighborhoods and will continue to be implemented through February 2009. Read more about how this is just a part of a larger effort to help the city become a zero-waste community. Read the rest of this entry »
Building a Xeriscape or Zeroscape in Boulder Colorado
Moving to Boulder Colorado is a lot like moving to the moon, if you’re from most anywhere else in the US. You think you know what it “should” look like or what you would like it “to look like”, but when you actually get here you have to adjust your perceptions a bit. Boulder is located where the great plains end and the Rocky Mountains begin. Boulder isn’t all plains and isn’t all mountains, but somewhere pleasantly in between – and oh, did I mention the gorgeous foothills? With 300 days of sunshine, 17-25 inches of rain, an average of 158 inches of snowfall each year and with varying degrees of altitudes between 5000 – 14,000 feet above sea level there is an amazing diversity of plants – which gets me to my title point – what is heck is a “xeriscape”? Read the rest of this entry »